Communication is one of those topics that come up with a metronomic regularity. It raises its head in almost every meeting we have in one guise or another and is one of those things that you can never have enough of. Bad communications always seems to be someone else’s fault. As George Bernard Shaw said … Continue reading Communication is in our gift
Jigsaws are a team sport
The trouble with trying to write something for my blog every day is that eventually I'm going to have to repeat myself. With approaching a thousand pieces written repetition is inevitable. It's no bad thing really, as restating your messages is a good way to remember them. I remember that from my times tables. Way … Continue reading Jigsaws are a team sport
My very first scrum
I attended my first scrum meeting this morning. It was with the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team. Wow! It was so short I nearly missed it and so sharp I nearly cut myself. Just before the allotted time the team came together and gathered round the scrum boards. We all stood. Bang on 9 o’clock … Continue reading My very first scrum
Unfolding plans 197 – Visible spectrum of change
There is nothing more magical than a rainbow. (There is nothing faster than a Post Office van but that is another story.) There is something about seeing the ephemeral band of colours splashed across the sky that brings out the spiritual in me. If there was one thing that would make me believe in a … Continue reading Unfolding plans 197 – Visible spectrum of change
Unfolding plans 196 – App hype
There is such hype about apps. Everyone uses them. Everyone has to have them. You’re just not out there if your firm doesn’t have an app. A lot of people agree. There are at least three million of the things to download onto your smartphone or tablet. Beware however as only around five per cent … Continue reading Unfolding plans 196 – App hype
Unfolding plans 195 – let them get on with their jobs.
I finished ‘Maverick’ by Ricardo Semler a week or so back. Mike had lent me the book some time ago and it had been sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. There was something about the cover that made me leave it. Perhaps it was waiting for the right time. Any book though that … Continue reading Unfolding plans 195 – let them get on with their jobs.
Unfolding plans 193 – Buying or selling
We were waiting outside the director’s meeting room in the upper floor of North Tyneside’s office in Cobalt. It was some time ago yet I can recall it vividly. A colleague of mine and I were waiting to be called into a meeting with the directors and neither of us had warmed to the prospect. … Continue reading Unfolding plans 193 – Buying or selling
Unfolding plans 192 – Google has got it wrong @sharemindfully @lldzne #GuerrillaWorking
Google has got it wrong apparently. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, the open office trend is destroying the work place and what is needed are more walls rather than less. It was a good piece yet short on supporting evidence and seems to have been based entirely upon the experiences of the … Continue reading Unfolding plans 192 – Google has got it wrong @sharemindfully @lldzne #GuerrillaWorking
Unfolding plans 187 – Does it work?
A Frenchmen once said to me ‘I know it works in practice but does it work in theory?’ He asked me in English, though I was in Paris at the time and it seemed a very funny thing to say. It was a long time ago and I have only just come to realise what … Continue reading Unfolding plans 187 – Does it work?
Unfolding plans 183 – Organisational fit
How do I know where I am going to be in five years’ time? I struggle sometimes to know where I am going to be tomorrow let alone that far ahead. Yet that is what I’m being asked to think about as part of our organisational fit or org-fit as we’re calling it. We’re thinking … Continue reading Unfolding plans 183 – Organisational fit
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 